National Party policies
Sir, — Apparently H. R. Peers (May 23) has jumped to the conclusion that I am a devotee of Social Credit, although how that could be inferred from my letter is inexplicable. “Abrasive,” used so much since Mr Muidoon took office, applies equally to the way in which militant unions press their endless claims for rights, mainly higher wages which inflate prices beyond the means of pensioners, who have no voice, abrasive or otherwise, to press their claims no matter what government is in power. “Socred dreams of Utopia” are not likely to delude those who have been deprived, despite a lifetime of striving for equality under various governments and abrasive taskmasters. While I am wielding a shovel and pushing a wheel-barrow at home (last week), I leave H. R. Peers to emulate Bob Semple’s labourers caught “breast feeding their shovels” while “working” on relief schemes in 1929-1935. — Yours, etc., (Mrs) L. E. REID. May 23, 1978.
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